New national reserve to be created in Madagascar
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Xinhua, August 27, 2011
A new national reserve will be created at Anamalay Mantandia in Madagascar's central-east region, an official statement indicated on Friday.
The first workshop meant to discuss about the new protected zone at the Anamalay Mantandia Forest Corridor (NAP-CFAM) has been going on since Tuesday in Moramanga town in the same region.
Some of the issues discussed at the workshop include delimiting boundaries for NAP-CFAM zone as well as identification of the roles that will be played by various stakeholders in the creation of this new national reserve.
The process to put in place NAP-CFAM will involve three phases which will include public discussions that will be followed by the harmonization of all public views and later, presentation of the final recommendations to the government for the signing of the final decree to create the national reserve.
Currently, Madagascar has 18 national parks, five natural reserves and 23 special reserves.
During the 2003 World Congress on Protected Zones that was organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (UICN) in Durban, Madagascar committed herself to give high priority to protection of biodiversity by increasing the total land surface area of protected zones from 1.7 million hectares to six million hectares.
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